Semaphore Gets a Free Plan For Private and Open Source Projects

Semaphore

With great pleasure we are announcing that Semaphore is now free to use for
private projects, for up to 100 builds per month. This is great for
personal sideprojects, early stage MVPs and similar low volume development
activities.

Free accounts have two processors
available. This allows you to either test two private projects or branches
at the same time, or run one build with tests split in two parallel threads.
To ensure fair usage we are counting builds using two threads as two
free builds.

We will convert all new users who are currently in a 30-day free trial to the
new free plan.

Semaphore becomes free for open source

We are not stopping there however. The same free plan you can use for private
projects also allows unlimited testing and deployment of open source
projects.

Sign up, add your project from GitHub,
run your first test suite in a minute without any changes in source code
and share it on your
profile.

Giving back to the community

Semaphore would not be possible without open source software. From the backbone
essentials such as Git and Linux to tools like RSpec and PhantomJS, Semaphore
is both built with and made to support development of projects based on
open source.

Our goal has always been to make Semaphore free for open source projects.
However bootstrapping from an almost anonymous position obliged us to wait
until the business is profitable enough. All we had was a team and a goal
to keep making the best continuous integration service we can. Now we are
happy to share it with the community.

Language support

Semaphore currently has full support for testing and deploying Clojure,
JavaScript / Node.js, PHP and Ruby projects. Our plan is to add support for
all major open source languages by the end of the year.

Open source organizations

To allow large open source projects to take full advantage of our
organization management features,
we are introducing a special open source plan which allows an organization
to have unlimited projects and unlimited open source builds with two processors
for parallel testing.

Changes to existing profiles

All current users and organizations who already have an open source
project on Semaphore will find that their project pages have become public.
Only collaborators can access settings and trigger new builds and deploys,
of course. For example, check out profiles of
Perceptive Software or
FlatStack.

Reduced price of Starter plan by $10, gets unlimited projects

To streamline our pricing and help you build
more, we are making our Starter plan the first available paid plan.
With unlimited private projects (instead of five) and one processor for running
tests, it now costs $29.

We hope that you are as excited about the new capabilities as we are, and
can’t wait to see what you’ll be making next. Happy building!